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Friday - Rob Cowan with Tony Robinson

With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite Bach for Advent; Music in Time: Schumann: Papillons; Artist of the Week: Charles Munch, featured conducting Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 2.

9am
My favourite... Bach for Advent. Rob explores the range of music that Bach wrote for performance during the season of Advent. From cantatas to chorale preludes, Rob chooses a selection of his favourite choruses, arias and organ works.

9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: trace the classical theme behind a well-known song.

10am
Rob's guest is the actor, comedian, writer and broadcaster, Sir Tony Robinson. Well known for his cunning plans as Baldrick in the hit series Blackadder and for writing and starring in Maid Marian and Her Merry Men, Sir Tony also presented Time Team for twenty years and has written a series of history books for children. Sir Tony shares some of his favourite pieces of classical music throughout the week, including Faur茅's Dolly Suite, which he remembers as the theme tune to Listen with Mother, Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor and Handel's Messiah, which he sang as a schoolboy.

10.30am
Music in Time: Romantic
Rob places Music in Time, heading back to the Romantic period with the piano music of Robert Schumann. and his piano cycle Papillons, Op.2 - a set of ephemeral piano miniatures, which create a sense of an unfolding narrative.

11am
Rob's artist of the week is the conductor Charles Munch. Born in Strasbourg when it was still annexed to the German Empire, Munch gained a unique insight into both the French and German repertoire by serving as concertmaster under Wilhelm F眉rtwangler, and Bruno Walter, and from conducting French orchestras including the Lamoureux and Orchestre Symphonique de Paris. As a conductor, Munch brought flair, panache and imagination to a whole host of varied masterpieces including Berlioz's Romeo and Juliet and Stravinsky's Jeu de Cartes, as well as symphonies by Dvorak and Mendelssohn, all of which are featured during the week.

Prokofiev
Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor, Op.16
Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer (piano)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Charles Munch (conductor).

3 hours

Last on

Fri 16 Dec 2016 09:00

Music Played

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in G sharp minor, Op 32 No 12

    Performer: Andrei Gavrilov.
    • EMI.
  • Edward Elgar

    Harmony No.4 'The Farmyard'

    Ensemble: Athena Ensemble.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata 140, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme: Opening Chorus

    Choir: Munich Bach Choir. Orchestra: Munich Bach Orchestra.
    • DG.
  • Andrea Falconieri

    Folias echa para mi Se帽ora Dona Terlilla de Carellenos

    Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Solent

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of New York. Conductor: Salvatore Di Vittorio.
    • NAXOS.
  • 脡lisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Violin Sonata no.3 in F major

    Ensemble: La R锚veuse. Director: Benjamin Perrot.
    • MIRARE.
  • Aaron Copland

    Hoe-Down (Rodeo)

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • RCA.
  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    The Cunning Little Vixen: excerpt from Act I

    Performer: Vienna Philharmonic. Singer: Lucia Popp. Conductor: Charles Mackerras. Singer: Dalibor Jedli膷ka. Singer: Eva Randov谩.
    • Decca.
  • John Adams

    Short Ride in a Fast Machine

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Adams: Harmonielehre etc: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 6.
  • Terry Riley

    In C (excerpt)

    Ensemble: Ragazze Quartet. Ensemble: Slagwerk Den Haag. Ensemble: Kapok.
    • CHANNEL.
  • Amilcare Ponchielli

    La Gioconda - Act 3 sc.2; Dance of the hours

    Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Ferenc Fricsay.
    • DG.
  • Robert Schumann

    Papillons, Op 2

    Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • DECCA.
  • Clara Schumann

    Three Romances, Op.22

    Performer: Philippe Graffin. Performer: Claire D茅sert.
    • ONYX.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Piano Concerto no.2 in G minor, op. 16

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Munch.
    • RCA.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Flute Concerto no.1 in A minor Wq.166 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Orchestra: Potsdam Chamber Academy. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Irving Berlin

    White Christmas

    Performer: Jascha Heifetz. Ensemble: Salvatore Camarata & his Orchestra.
    • DG.
  • Arvo P盲rt

    Seven Magnificat Antiphons: No.4 O Schl眉ssel Davids

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • HYPERION.
  • Arvo P盲rt

    Magnificat

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • HYPERION.
  • Franz Liszt

    Transcendental Etude No.2 in A minor

    Performer: Claudio Arrau.
    • PHILIPS.
    • 478 9167.
    • 2.

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The answer to today's Musical Challenge was:

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